* October – In Strassburg, the world's first newspaper is published by Johann Carolus.

* Johann Friedrich Gmelin ( 1748 – 1804 ), a German naturalist ; publisher of the Systema Naturae of Carolus Linnaeus

Carolus Linnaeus named the genus Bauhinia ( family Caesalpiniaceae ) for the brothers Johann and Gaspard Bauhin.

Despite the claim from some British historians as to the Courant being the first daily newspaper ever published, the German-language Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, printed from 1605 onwards by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg, is most often recognized as the first newspaper.

Johann Carolus's Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, published in 1605 in Strassburg, is often recognized as the first newspaper.

* March 24 Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's Funeral cantata Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, BWV 244a before midday at the St. James Church, Köthen ( for the same event as above ).

The Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon aller Wissenschafften und Künste () is a 68-volume German encyclopedia published by Johann Heinrich Zedler between 1731 and 1754.

* 1800 – Johann Conrad Susemihl begins publishing a survey of the birds of Germany, Teutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen-a 22 part work completed in 1817.

* Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his First Köthen Funeral Music at Evening on March 23 and his Funeral Cantata Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, BWV 244a before midday on March 24 both at the St. James Church, Köthen for the funeral services of his former employer, Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.

He assisted in the production of " Teutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen " by Johann Conrad Susemihl.

From 1847 he was engaged in editing the Handwörterbuch der reinen und angewandten Chemie ( Dictionary of Pure and Applied Chemistry ) edited by Justus von Liebig, Wöhler, and Johann Christian Poggendorff, and he also wrote an important textbook.

Tombs of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and his wife Johanna Marie,: de: Friedhof der Dorotheenstädtischen und Friedrichswerderschen Gemeinden | Dorotheenstaedtischer Friedhof ( cemetery ), Berlin

Johann Gottfried von Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) broke new ground in philosophy and poetry, as a leader of the Sturm und Drang movement of proto-Romanticism.

Johann Georg Rapp ( 1757 – 1847 ) und die Separatisten in Iptingen.

Goethe's associate Johann Gottfried Herder wrote an essay titled Extract from a correspondence about Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples ( 1773 ) in the early days of the Sturm und Drang movement.

Leaving gymnasium to study philosophy, psychology and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Adorno continued his readings with Kracauer, turning now to Hegel and Kierkegaard, and began publishing concert reviews and pieces of music for distinguished journals like the Zeitschrift für Musik, the Neue Blätter für Kunst und Literatur and later for the Musikblätter des Anbruch.

* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ) is closely identified with Enlightenment values, progressing from Sturm und Drang (" Storm and Stress "); leader in Weimar Classicism.

* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther ( Die Leiden des jungen Werthers ) which is influential in the Sturm und Drang movement and Romanticism.

Schumann also incorporated " La Marseillaise " as a major motif in his overture Hermann und Dorothea, inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and quotes it, in waltz rhythm, in the first movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, for solo piano.

* Lehmann, Johann Georg, " Vollständige Geschichte des Herzogthums Zweibrücken und seiner Fürsten, der Stamm-und Voreltern des k. bayer.

Über Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst, und Kunstwerke (" On Johann Sebastian Bach's Life, Art and Work ").

Vol I: Johann Sebastian Bach und seine Zeit ( ISBN 3-87537-156-9 ); Vol.

*‘ Johann Joseph Fux und die moderne Kontrapunkttheorie ’, Deutsche Musikgesellschaft: Kongress I: Leipzig 1925, pp 187 – 8

In 1909 the cities of Saarbrücken, St Johann und Malstatt-Burbach merged and formed the major city of Saarbrücken with a population of over 100. 000.

* Johann Sebastian Bach: Two Chorales from Cantatas BWV 22 und 147, arranged for organ solo by Maurice Duruflé ( 1952 )

Other notable recordings include Johannes Brahms ' Symphony No. 4 and Franz Schubert's third and eighth (" Unfinished ") symphonies, also with the Vienna Philharmonic, recordings of Dvořák's Concerto for piano and orchestra with Sviatoslav Richter, Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, Johann Strauss ' Die Fledermaus, Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata and Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach established epigenesis as the model of thought in the life sciences in 1781 with his publication of Über den Bildungstrieb und das Zeugungsgeschäfte.

* Briefe über das arabische Münzwesen von Johann Jacob Reiske mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen von Johann Gottfried Eichhorn.

), Johann Jacob Reiske: Persönlichkeit und Wirkung ( Beiträge zur Leipziger Universitäts-und Wissenschaftsgeschichte 7 ), ( Leipzig, 2005 ).

He translated Johann Jakob Herzog's Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche ( Encyclopedia in Real Terms of Protestant Theology and Church ) into English.

* Lobschrift auf Herrn Johann Thunmann Prof. der Weitweisheit und Beredsamkeit auf der Universität zu Halle ( Halle, 1779 )

Johann Kuhnau: a choral partita from ' Biblische Historien ',

Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which were eventually published in the Transcendentalists ' journal, The Dial.

When Diabelli died in 1858, Spina continued to run the firm, and published much music by Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss.

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

The species name troglodytes, Greek for " cave-dweller ", was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his book De generis humani varietate nativa liber (" on the natural varieties of the human genus ") published in 1776, This book was based on his dissertation presented one year before ( it had a date 16 Sep 1775 printed on its title page ) to the University of Göttingen for internal use only, thus the dissertation did not meet the conditions for published work in the sense of zoological nomenclature.

In 1642 Johann Stobäus, who composed with Johann Eccard, published the Preussische Fest-Lieder, a number of evangelical Prussian songs.

His hurried effort was published by his friend Johann Froben of Basel in 1516 and thence became the first published Greek New Testament, the Novum Instrumentum omne, diligenter ab Erasmo Rot.

It was seen first in Johann Froben ’ s revised edition of the Adagia published in Basel in 1515.

Another scholar of the time interested in grimoires, the antiquarian bookseller Johann Scheible, first published the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, two influential magical texts that claimed to have been written by the ancient Jewish figure Moses.

Rapp became inspired by the philosophies of Jakob Böhme, Philipp Jakob Spener, Johann Heinrich Jung, and Emanuel Swedenborg, among others, and later wrote Thoughts on the Destiny of Man, published in German in 1824 and in English a year later, in which he outlined his ideas and philosophy.

" Other theories include those in Johann Friedrich Breithaupt's Christliche Helden Insel Malta (), published in 1632, where he calls Maltese a mixed ' barbaric ' language and John Dryden's description of the language as ' Berber ' on his visit to the islands ( the memoirs of those journeys appeared in 1776 ).

This theoretical framework was initially derived from the work of Gregor Johann Mendel published in 1865 and 1866 which was re-discovered in 1900 ; it was initially very controversial.

But in an article published on February 25 of the same year in a German newspaper called the Vossische Zeitung, Johann von Maedler, a Berlin astronomer, had used the word photography already.

In 1667, Johann Joachim Becher published his Physical Education, which was the first mention of what would become the phlogiston theory.

The idea that pterosaurs were aquatic animals persisted among a minority of scientists as late as 1830, when the German zoologist Johann Georg Wagler published a text on " amphibians " which included an illustration of Pterodactylus using its wings as flippers.

In 1809 Cuvier published a somewhat longer description, naming the animal, in which he refuted a hypothesis by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach that it would have been a shore bird.

The first system comes from the German astronomer Johann Bayer's ( 1572 – 1625 ) Uranometria published in 1603 and is for bright stars.

In 1734, the Leiden-based physician Johann Bachstrom published a book on scurvy in which he stated that " scurvy is solely owing to a total abstinence from fresh vegetable food, and greens ; which is alone the primary cause of the disease " and urged the use of fresh fruit and vegetables as a cure.

* 26 August 1854 — Charles Bourseul published an article in the magazine L ' Illustration ( Paris ): " Transmission électrique de la parole " ( electric transmission of speech ), describing a ' make-and-break ' type telephone transmitter later created by Johann Reis.

In the same year, the German scholar Johann Georg von Eckhart, in an essay published in Leibniz's Collectanea Etymologica, proposed for the first time a relation to the Samoyedic languages.

A description of Russia by Johann Gottlieb Georgi, published in English in 1780 ( presumably, a translation from German ), correctly explained: " Kabak in the Russian language signifies a public house for the common people to drink vodka ( a sort of brandy ) in.

* Johann Heinrich Alsted's Encyclopaedia is published.